Subject: Los Angeles Clippers

• King-Size Losers

  January 29, 2009

• Phoenix Suns vs. Washington Wizards

  March 19, 2009

• BASKETBALL, THE NEXT BIG THING

  November 11, 1992

• JORDAN ROLLS THROUGH PHOENIX

  November 25, 1992

• THE FIGHT BUSINESS

  March 31, 1993

• THE MOST POPULAR MAN IN PHOENIX

  April 28, 1993

• TRUMPETING THE SUNS

  June 9, 1993

• WAIT UNTIL NEXT YEAR

  June 23, 1993

• DARK DAYS FOR THE SUNS

  March 2, 1994

• AN OPEN LETTER TO CHARLES BARKLEY

  June 1, 1994

• Pic Hits for the week

  January 4, 1996

• Pic Hits for the week

  March 21, 1996

• Flashes

  From the week of April 1, 1999

  April 1, 1999

• Dust Bowl Blues: Phoenix Suns at Oklahoma City Thunder

  Recent headline: "Clippers Crush Thunder." Let's hope it's "Suns Burn Thunder" (don't think about that too literally) after tonight's game. But we digress: In what mad otherworld does the NBA's perennial doormat, the L.A. Clippers, crush anybody? Well, on November 19, the mantle of NBA's worst was seemingly passed from the hapless Clips to the laughable Oklahoma City Thunder when the Clippers thrashed OKC at home, 108-88. That term "at home" is a sticking point for non-Okie NBA fans, 'cause i

  November 25, 2008

• Same Ol' Clippers: NBA's Version of the Chicago Cubs Take on the Suns Tonight

  Clippers' rising star Eric Gordon A reserve suspended for violating the NBA drug policy. A star player talking openly about trade desires. Injuries and multiple losing streaks. Yep, things are most definitely topsy-turvy in Los Angeles Clippers Land. Or, based on the franchise's underwhelming past, things are exactly the way they are supposed to be.

  January 2, 2009

• Hot Links: Phoenix had 14th Wettest Year in 2008; ATV Rider and Local Hikers Missing; Cops and Shelter Help Homeless

  What drought? Last year will go down as one of the wettest years on record in Phoenix. In weather-related incidents, an ATV rider up north and two hikers in the Superstition Mountains go missing. And the nastier-than-normal weather hasn't been so kind on the homeless in the last few weeks, but cops and staff from a local shelter are trying to meet the needs of the most deperate. Arizona residents still don't know what to make of a new license plate legibility law, and lawmakers already want to c

  January 5, 2009

• Loss Angeles: Phoenix Suns vs. Star-Crossed Clippers on Sunday Afternoon

  It's the best of times and the worst of times for the Angeleno sports fan. There's still no NFL, and none on the near horizon, which seems to bother the NFL more than it does L.A. Jack Nicholson's once again grinning like a pre-lobotomy Randle Patrick McMurphy since his pet franchise, the Lakers, has returned to respectability -- and the NBA Finals. The Dodgers won the NL West last season, but it was all thanks to a player, Manny Ramirez, who went wack with the bat over a three-month haul in

  January 9, 2009

• Weekend Wars: Not a Brick in Sight for Shaq as Suns Blow Out Rival Mavs and Beat Lowly Clippers

  The big news here's that the really big guy went 12 for 12 from the free-throw line in weekend wins against the Dallas Mavericks and the Los Angeles Clippers. Shaquille O'Neal's been saying he's gone back to the basics his father taught him when he was a little boy of 6-9. Well, it's working. He was so good from the stripe in Friday's 128-100 home blowout over the Mavericks and in Sunday's 109-103 road victory against the Clippers that he could teach Steve Nas

  January 12, 2009

• Shaq Dominates Again: Suns Beat Fading Atlanta Hawks 103-98

    It was Shaquille O'Neal's night again -- and thank God for it! Without him, the Suns would've lost to the Atlanta Hawks, who led the game at US Airways Center late in the fourth quarter before a Suns spurt. O'Neal had 26 points and 10 rebounds in 40 minutes against the 22-15 Hawks, who these days feature former Shadow Mountain High School and Arizona Wildcats phenom Mike Bibby at point guard. The former Sacramento Kings star had 17 points -- and along with forwar

  January 14, 2009

• Weekend Split Against Two Bad Teams: Suns Lose to Minnesota at Home and Beat Toronto on the Road

  Remember that February 9 beat-down win over the formidable Dallas Mavericks at US Airways Center? It was easy to believe that the Phoenix Suns had turned it all around after they toppled a top Western Conference opponent by 28 points, to hope (Barack Obama's favorite word) that they could contend for a championship this season -- after all. Then, what a mess! They were fortunate to win against the terrible Los Angeles Clippers and the decent Atl

  January 19, 2009

• What Does it Mean? Phoenix Suns Lose and Win Against Terrible Teams

  You know what it means that the Suns blew out the Sacramento Kings 129-81 at US Airways Center Monday night? Nothing. The Kings are 11-39, officially the third-worst team in the NBA at 11-39 (the L.A. Clippers and the Washington Wizards are tied for worst at 10-38). Running them out of the gym means zilch. What tells us much more about this year's Suns under Coach Terry Porter is the team's 122-111 Saturday night loss to the Chicago Bulls. Former Suns player and executive Vinny De

  February 3, 2009

• Good Riddance: Terry Porter's Officially Fired, but Could it be Shaq Who Now Goes Instead of Amar'e?

  Well, it's official. Phoenix Suns head coach Terry Porter was fired today and replaced (on an interim basis) with long-time Phoenix assistant and former Los Angeles Clippers head coach Alvin Gentry (pictured). "I hired Terry because I believed he would be able to provide the balance our team needed in order to perform at a very high level. Unfortunately the transition from last season to this one proved to be very difficult, and we have not played to our potential. It's imperative

  February 16, 2009

• Breakneck Mountain: Phoenix Suns to Revive the Seven-and-Shoot Tonight Against Clippers Tuesday and Wednesday

  This just in from Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver and general manager Steve Kerr: Oops. Our bad. Terry Porter, we hardly knew ye. Here's a sack full of cash to salve your wounds. Amar'e -- ha ha. Those trade rumors? We were just kidding. Ya know we love ya, ya big lug. The rest of you guys, run like hell. Well, except you, J-Rich. (Shooting guard Jason Richardson, still paying penance for a pre-Christmas DUI, needs to slow waaaaaay down after being arrested in Scottsdale for doing 90 in a 35 z

  February 17, 2009

• Looking Like the Suns of Old After the Coaching Change, Phoenix Blows Out the Hapless L.A. Clippers

  It was a game in which Goran Dragic slam-dunked. Goran who? You know, the highly touted backup point guard whom fired Suns Coach Terry Porter used to ream a new one from the sidelines everytime he made a blunder. The Slovenian rookie (pictured) played with reckless abandon in the Suns' 140-100 rout of the hapless Los Angeles Clippers at US Airways Center Tuesday night. As did the rest of the Suns, who were laughing, high-fiving, and acting like a load of bric

  February 18, 2009

• Amar'e Stoudemire Scores 42 in Phoenix Suns' Second-Night-in-a-Row Rout of Clippers

  The once-again run-and-gun Phoenix Suns looked great again Wednesday night, scoring 140 points or more for the second game in a row against the dog-ass Los Angeles Clippers. This time, the score was 142-119, and supposedly on-the-trading-block Amar'e Stoudemire scored 42 points of that and pulled down 11 rebounds. We think we even saw him play a little defense. It was as if Stoudemire were saying to owner Robert Sarver and GM Steve Kerr, "You better not trade me!" In any case, we'll fi

  February 19, 2009

• Okay, Stoudemire's Staying With the Phoenix Suns, and so's Shaq -- at Least for the Remainder of the Season

  The NBA trade deadline passed at 1 p.m. today with no Phoenix Suns players moved -- not even Amar'e Stoudemire (whose departure seemed all but a done deal last week). Suns brass had been admitting for a month that they were entertaining trade offers for every member of the team except Steve Nash. There was huge interest in Stoudemire, but not much interest in giving the Suns enough in return for one of the top power forwards in the game. Either nobody offered up what Sun

  February 19, 2009

• On the Run: Fast-Moving Phoenix Suns Host OKC Tonight and the Boston Celtics Sunday

  More impressive than the 140 or more points scored in each of the Phoenix Suns' dominating victories over the Los Angeles Clippers is this quote by Clippers guard Eric Gordon, which followed the second game of the Alvin Gentry era. "They are going to be a really hard team to beat now that they are running up and down the court and moving at a fast pace. We're not that bad. The Suns are just really good." Oh yeah, baby. The Suns are back to their running-and-gunning ways.

  February 20, 2009

• Phoenix Suns' Amar'e Stoudemire Undergoes Eye Surgery; Probably Out for Rest of the Regular Season

  Just when things were beginning to look up for the Phoenix Suns. The team announced that power forward Amar'e Stoudemire -- on the trading block until he stepped up his game after a recent coaching change -- underwent surgery today for a "partially detached retina" and will be out for eight weeks "depending upon his healing process." If he's out for this average amount of time for such an injury, it means the team's high scorer (21.4 points a game) will be

  February 20, 2009

• Phoenix Suns Hold Off Boris Diaw, Raja Bell, and the Charlotte Hornets 112-102

  There were hugs all around, before Tuesday night's game got started and after the final buzzer. Raja Bell and Boris Diaw seemed happy to be back home in Phoenix, even if they are now starters for head coach Larry Brown's Charlotte Bobcats. So much so that they were the high scorers in the game: Bell had 23 points and Diaw had 27 and 10 rebounds. There were times when we thought their passion might allow the 22-35 Bobcats to overtake the 32-24 Suns and win at US Airways C

  February 25, 2009

• Orange Crushed: Suns Fall in La-La Land, Meet Lakers Again Sunday, Toronto Tonight

  www.nba.com Lamar Odom: "The Goods" played out of his skull in L.A. last night. For a precious few minutes  in the first quarter of last night's Suns/Lakers game in La-La Land, the Suns held their own against the NBA's best. No, it was better than that. They were rolling, running, gunning, roaring. They were taking advantage of someone else's defensive miscues for a (pleasant) change. And with literally only 2.5 first-teamers on the floor, they were doing the unthinkable: winnin

  February 27, 2009

• Phoenix Suns Can Possibly Enjoy Some Fun Times for a Change in Cupcake City This Weekend

  www.nba.comNenad Krstic of the Oklahoma City Thunder What do the Phoenix Suns have left to play for, following their epic, disheartening, and potentially playoff killing losing streak? If the Suns catch fire and the Mavs majorly choke, perhaps a postseason berth, a not-impossible-but-improbable scenario. Or what about pride? Naw, this isn't college ball, so all that hokey stuff about pride doesn't apply. So how about this? Specifically, some ass-kicking, scoreboard-lighting fun like we saw w

  March 13, 2009

• All-Star Schedule

  February 12, 2009

• On the Eve of the NBA All-Star Game, Phoenix Suns Players Show Off Their Tattoo Canvases

  February 12, 2009

• Phoenix Suns vs. L.A. Clippers

  January 1, 2009

• The Trouble With Dribbles

  November 22, 2007

• Posterizing EA

  NBA 2K7 towers over the competition

  December 21, 2006

• Amaré's Burden

  The Phoenix Suns superstar has more to worry about than his ailing knees

  March 30, 2006

• Bone Mama Mia!

  Mary McCann sounds off

  October 13, 2005

• Net Loss

  Love & Basketball jumps through familiar hoops

  April 27, 2000

• PICS HITS AND THRILLS

  January 26, 1994

• Steve Nash Helps Suns Squeak Out 109-107 Win Over the Los Angeles Clippers in Season Opener

  Steve Nash still has it, as the Suns player helped lift his team to victory over the L.A. Clippers.​Welcome back, Steve Nash.One of the countless questions hanging over the Phoenix Suns 2009-2010 season was whether or not the team's 35-year-old captain still had any hustle left despite his advancing age. Apparently he does, since the dude pretty much single-handedly carried the Suns to victory on Wednesday night in its season-opener against the Los Angeles Clippers at the Staples Center. Nas

  October 29, 2009

• Suns Trump Golden State, Minnesota Over the Weekend

  Channing Frye was quite deadly from the three-point line in back-to-back Suns victories over the weekend.Channing Frye justified his two-year, $3.8 million contract (and then some) this past weekend. The 6-foot-11 center was a basket-making dynamo who helped the Phoenix Suns thump a pair of hapless Western Conference pretenders at U.S Airways Center. Frye was fantastic in both games. He grabbed 22 points during Friday night's home opener (including sinking six of seven three-point shots from do

  November 2, 2009

• Road Test: Brutal NBA Swing Opens With 3-0 Suns at 3-0 Heat

  www.nba.com/heat Miami's Dwyane Wade is the newest member of the NBA's 10,000-point club.​ 3-0 to start the season? Even against poor-to-middling competition (L.A. Clippers, Golden State Warriors, Minnesota Timberwolves), we'll take it, though we're not deluding ourselves. The other athletic shoe's about to drop on the Phoenix Suns, thanks to the NBA's Special Department of Torture (a.k.a. the schedulers). Tonight, Phoenix starts one of those harrowing road swings the NBA's infamous fo

  November 3, 2009

• Don't Drink the Orange Kool-Aid Yet. Chris Paul and Kobe Bryant Are Coming Right Up.

  Steve Nash and the Suns have found success in scrappiness.​Just two weeks ago, in our secret heart of hearts, we were ready to consign 35-year-old Steve Nash to the dustbin of history. Unless you're Steve Nash's mom, you were, too. Be honest. Then came that last-minute beauty shot in the regular-season opener against the Clippers, the 20-assist game against Golden State, the 30 points and four treys against Miami, and the massive 21 point/20 assist effort to lead the Suns back from what look

  November 11, 2009

• Phoenix Suns Stomped by Los Angeles Lakers in Lopsided Loss. Next Up: Toronto Raptors on Sunday.

  www.nba.comKobe Bryant and the rest of the Los Angeles Lakers proved why they're the defending NBA champions in last night's defeat of the Phoenix Suns.​Welcome back to reality, Phoenix Suns fans. After your team amassed a surprising 8-1 record over the past two weeks (including spectacular wins over Boston and N'awlins), it's likely you thought that Steve Nash, Amar'e Stoudemire, and the rest were going to run roughshod over the rest of the NBA's elite during the 2009-10 season and grab aho

  November 13, 2009